Golden PEN Award

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| awarded_for = "A Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature"

| host = English PEN

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| country = England

| year = 1993

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| website = [http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature Golden Pen Award]

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The Golden PEN Award is a literary award established in 1993 by English PEN given annually to a British writer for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature".{{cite web |author=Alison Flood |date=3 December 2012 |title=Linton Kwesi Johnson wins Golden PEN award |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/03/linton-kwesi-johnson-golden-pen-award |access-date=3 December 2012 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=27 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527215630/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/03/linton-kwesi-johnson-golden-pen-award |url-status=live }} The winner is chosen by the Board of English PEN. The award has previously been called the S.T. Dupont Golden Pen Award.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Recipients

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|+Golden PEN Award winners{{cite web |author=Staff writer |author-link=Staff writer |title=Golden Pen Award |url=http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature/ |access-date=5 May 2013 |work=Golden Pen Award |archive-date=15 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615091232/http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature/ |url-status=live }}

!Year

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1993

|{{sortname|last=Bedford|first=Sybille}}

1994

|{{sortname|last=Pritchett|first=V. S.}}

1995

|{{sortname|last=Spender|first=Stephen}}

1996

|{{sortname|last=Cooper|first=William|link=William Cooper (novelist)}}

1997

|{{sortname|last=Murdoch|first=Iris}}

1998

|{{sortname|last=Spark|first=Muriel}}

1999

|{{sortname|last=Fitzgerald|first=Penelope}}

|{{cite book |author=Cathy Hartley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pc1UA3uhUlYC&pg=PA349 |title=A Historical Dictionary of British Women |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2003 |page=349}}

2000

|{{sortname|last=King|first=Francis}}

2001

|{{sortname|last=Pinter|first=Harold}}

|{{cite book |author=Leslie Kane |title=The Art of Crime: The Plays and Film of Harold Pinter and David Mamet |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2004 |page=2 |chapter=Introduction |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1P-tqa82gKIC&pg=PA2}}

2002

|{{sortname|last=Lessing|first=Doris}}

2003

|{{sortname|last=Frayn|first=Michael}}

2004

|{{sortname|last=Bawden|first=Nina}}

|{{cite web |author=Noah |first=Sherna |date=22 August 2012 |title=Carrie's War author Nina Bawden dies |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/carries-war-author-nina-bawden-dies-8073281.html |access-date=3 December 2012 |work=The Independent |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724231933/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/carries-war-author-nina-bawden-dies-8073281.html |url-status=live }}

2005

|{{sortname|last=Morris|first=Jan}}

|{{cite book |author=Gillian Fenwick |title=Traveling Genius: The Writing Life of Jan Morris |publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press |year=2008 |page=XX |chapter=Chronology |access-date=3 December 2012 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHMEVRxWx6UC&pg=PR20 |archive-date=27 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227232612/https://books.google.com/books?id=wHMEVRxWx6UC&pg=PR20 |url-status=live }}

2006

|{{sortname|last=Holroyd|first=Michael}}

2007

|{{sortname|last=Pullein-Thompson|first=Josephine}}

|{{Cite web |title=Josephine Pullein-Thompson Collection |url=https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/josephine-pullein-thompson-collection/ |access-date=2020-06-23 |website=Collections - Special Collections |language=en-US |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130023303/https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/josephine-pullein-thompson-collection/ |url-status=live }}

2008

|{{sortname|last=Ballard|first=JG}}

2009

|{{sortname|last=Berger|first=John}}

|{{cite web |author=Catherine Neilan |date=8 December 2009 |title=Berger picks up Golden PEN award |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/berger-picks-golden-pen-award.html |access-date=3 December 2012 |work=The Bookseller |archive-date=16 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116123243/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/berger-picks-golden-pen-award.html |url-status=live }}

2010

|{{sortname|last=Rushdie|first=Salman}}

2011

|{{sortname|last=Drabble|first=Margaret}}

|{{cite web |author=Benedicte Page |date=1 December 2011 |title=Drabble wins Golden PEN |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/drabble-wins-golden-pen.html |access-date=3 December 2012 |work=The Bookseller |archive-date=5 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003005/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/drabble-wins-golden-pen.html |url-status=live }}

2012

|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=Linton Kwesi}}

2013

|{{sortname|last=Slovo|first=Gillian}}

|{{cite web |author=Liz Bury |date=3 December 2013 |title=Gillian Slovo wins Golden PEN award |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/03/gillian-slovo-golden-pen-award |access-date=29 May 2014 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=29 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529221553/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/03/gillian-slovo-golden-pen-award |url-status=live }}

References

External links

[http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature/ Golden Pen Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615091232/http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature/ |date=15 June 2013 }}, official website.

Category:Awards established in 1993

Category:1993 establishments in England

Category:English PEN awards

Category:Literary awards honoring lifetime achievement